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In 1907, M.r. Hooker was city engineer of Pullman, 

 Washington, and in 1908 was assistant city engineer of 

 Spokane, resigning from the latter position to take up his 

 work with the National Irrigation Congress. 



Mr. Hooker was born in Iowa, November 25, 1880, 

 and has lived the greater portion of his life in the West, 

 having accompanied his parents to Spokane in 1890. 



CHAIRMAN INSINGER HAS EXPERIENCE. 



R. Insinger, of Spokane, Washington, chairman of 

 the executive committee and of the Board of Governors 

 of the Eighteenth National Irrigation Congress, was born 

 in Holland in December, 1862. 



Mr. Insinger lived in the Northwest Territories of 

 the Dominion of Canada from 1885 until 1896. He was 

 engaged in breeding horses and cattle. He was a member 

 of the legislature of the Northwest Territories from 1892 

 until 1896. 



Mr. Insinger removed to Spokane, Washington, in 

 1897. He is now manager of the Northwest and Pacific 

 Hypotheekbank. He is also a director of the Phoenix 

 Lumber Company, and of the Spokane and Eastern Trust 

 Company, and a trustee of the Spokane Chamber of 

 Commerce. 



Mr. Insinger was chairman of the Board of Control 

 of the Seventeenth National Irrigation Congress. At 

 Spokane, in August, 1909, he was elected chairman of the 

 executive committee, and at the same time chairman of 

 the Board of Governors of the Eighteenth National Irri- 

 gation Congress. 



Mr. Insinger is a man of large affairs, with great 

 capacity for executive position, and is an effective head 

 to the active working organization of the congress. 



SKILLED AS AIT ORGANIZER. 



P. J. Dugan of Pueblo, Colorado, president of the 

 Board of Control of the Eighteenth National Irrigation 

 Congress, is peculiarly fitted for his work. 



Mr. Dugan, a successful lawyer, has made a specialty 

 of land, mining and irrigation law, and stands well at 

 the head of his profession in this respect. His skill as 

 such has brought him into public notice and given him a 

 large acquaintance, not only in his own state but in the 

 entire West. With such knowledge he combines rare 

 executive ability, and is a splendid head to the local or- 

 ganization that will bear the brunt of the work of prep- 

 aration for the next congress. 



M.r. Dugan is a native of Oswego, New York, and 

 went to work in New York City as a boy of sixteen years, 

 being then thrown on his own resources. In 1881 he 

 came to Pueblo, and had employment in various county 

 and public offices for several years, being deputy county 

 clerk and chief clerk in the United States land office at 

 Pueblo for a considerable period. Meanwhile, he was 

 studying law, and was admitted to the bar in 1888, since 

 which time he has built up a large and extensive practice. 



Mr. Dugan has never entered the public service, 

 though he has had plenty of opportunity to do so, except 

 that he is a member of the city park commission and 

 of the board of education of the city of Pueblo. Both 

 parks and schools, especially the latter, are hobbies of the 

 chairman of the Board of Control, and he has given his 

 best efforts toward putting the school and the parks 

 systems of his home city on a very high basis. 



Mr. Dugan is supported in the work of preparation 

 for the Eighteenth Congress by an energetic and capable 

 board that is behind him in his efforts to make the coming 

 congress in September the greatest in the history of the 

 organization. 



WATSON AS A PUBLIC BOOSTER. 



A. C. Watson, vice-chairman of the Peublo Board of 

 Control, Eighteenth National Irrigation Congress, was 

 born in Mattoon, Coles County, Illinois, March 8, 1863. 

 In 1864 his parents removed to Leavenworth, Kansas, 

 and in 1869 to Osage County, Kansas. 



Mr. Watson came to Colorado in 1889, and for several 

 years was a citizen of the San Luis valley, engaged in 

 the mercantile business. He removed to Pueblo in 1901 

 and since then has been in the real estate, loan and insur- 

 ance business. 



For the past three years he has been a director of 

 the Pueblo Businessmen's Association, and in 1908 he 

 was secretary of the Colorado State Fair. Mr. Watson 

 lias also been a member of the board of directors of the 

 Colorado Commercial Association and of the Colorado 

 State Realty Dealers' Association. 



Mr. Watson was a delegate to the Seventeenth and 

 Eighteenth National Irrigation Congresses, and headed 

 the Pueblo delegation to Spokane in 1909 that secured 

 the Eighteenth Congress for his town. He was also 

 elected member of the executive committee for Colo- 

 rado at the Spokane congress. 



In November, 1909, Mr. Watson was elected vice- 

 chairman of the Pueblo Board of Control. 



PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN IN STRONG HANDS. 



R. H. Faxon of Garden City, Kansas, secretary of the 

 Board of Control, Eighteenth National Irrigation Con- 

 gress, and its director of publicity, was born near Topeka, 

 Kansas, May 9, 1875. He received an academic educa- 

 tion at Washburn College, Topeka, and followed the 

 occupation of stenographer for a time, after which he 

 went into newspaper work and was a political reporter 

 and writer at Topeka for several years. 



Mr. Faxon was secretary to Chester I. Long, repre- 

 sentative from the Seventh Kansas district and later 

 United States Senaor from Kansas for eleven years, re- 

 tiring as such March 4, 1909. 



In April, 1908, Mr. Faxon purchased the controlling 

 interest in the Garden City, Kansas, Evening Telegram, 

 which he has since edited and published. 



He was a delegate to the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and 

 Seventeenth National Irrigation Congresses, and at the 

 Sixteenth Congress at Albuquerque in 1908, and the 

 Seventeenth Congress at Spokane in 1909, was a member 

 and secretary of the committee on resolutions. He was 

 appointed a member of the congressional committee by 

 President Barstow in 1908. In November, 1909, he was 

 elected a member of the Board of Control for the Eight- 

 eenth Congress, and at the same time a member of the 

 executive committee, and secretary of the board as well as 

 its director of publicity. 



Mr. Faxon is a director of the Kansas-Colorado Rail- 

 road, of the Kansas State Historical Society and. of the 

 Industrial Club of Garden City, Kansas; is a member of 

 the park commission of Garden City; president of the 

 Southwest Kansas Editorial Association; president of the 

 New Santa Fe Trail, the leading good roads organization 

 of the West; and vice-president of the Kansas Day Club. 



J. C. WAITE RESIGNS. 



Leaves U. S. Reclamation Service to Accept Position with 

 Private Enterprise. 



Mr. J. C. Waite, who, since assuming charge of the 

 Settlement Branch of the Reclamation Service at Chicago, 

 has won for himself the esteem and good-will of hundreds 

 of homeseekers, has accepted a tempting offer from private 

 interests, and on February 1st resigned from the Service 

 to accept a responsible position with H. L. Hollister 

 "the man behind the guns" of the great Sacramento Val- 

 ley irrigation project the most monumental of the many 

 Kuhn enterprises. 



Mr. Waite is a native of Alabama, and although still a 

 young man, he has behind him a record of nine years of 

 creditable endeavor in the government employ. Since 

 1904, and until the establishment by the Reclamation 

 Service of its "Settlement Bureau," Mr. Waite was private 

 secretary to Director Newell. 



His many friends in the service, and outside of, while 

 regretting the loss of an efficient and congenial co-worker 

 and advisor, cannot help but felicitate Mr. Waite upon his 

 entering a field where his abilities may find unlimited 

 scope. 



